Bookshare requires you to use their unpack tool. If you don't, then
the book acts only as a nice little real estate stealer. Kinda
useless if you ask me.
On Apr 8, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Hi Travis,
We don't plan on withdrawing support for RFBD books as long as RFBD
continues to allow katieplayer as an option. And thanks for the
responses on same - we need to know. BTW, I'm not staunchly DRM -
we're just not interested in developing for any obscure schemes or
having to buy our way in to support same. We're interested in
providing playback of non-proprietary standards like DAISY. DRM
schemes for this kind of content should be similarly open and
standard (if it's the type of DRM that needs to be built into a
player). No security-through-obscurity stuff and no using DRM as a
way to limit/centralize availability of compatible players and keep
prices high.
What do you mean about Bookshare's proprietary format? The majority
of their books are DAISY 3. I know you said you won't respond to
any threads on this topic. But can I come at you from a different
angle? You're OK with DAISY 3 right? That's not a proprietary format.
As for the rest of your feature requests - I really and seriously
am putting all of this stuff in a file. It gets ranked in a list we
maintain and we consider each request as we come to it. I'll check
out the links you kindly included.
Much thanks,
Joe
